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Awesome thread idea. Growing up in Kansas City area was awesome, tons of great memories!
1) Dozens of of job sites around the city where I worked summers / holidays with a commercial concrete company my dad & uncle owned - learned a lot about hard work doing that, always worn out at the end of the day but it felt great to put in a hard day's work and get in that truck to head home at the end (not so great the next morning though lol) - we lived & died by the weather forecasts. And we would LOVE it if we got assigned to do a job in the caves where we could escape the heat. My dad would not put up with laziness out of me & expected me to work as hard / harder than everybody else. I loved him for that and respected him enough that I worked my butt off.
2) Several farms in the Raymore - Peculiar area putting up hay
3) Kansas City Youth for Christ at 4715 Rainbow Blvd (it's something else now) - lots of teenage memories from there Saturday night rallies with 1000 - 2000 teens, events during the week, ...
4) Circle-C Ranch (Edgerton, KS) and L-Bar-C Ranch (LaCygne, KS) - awesome summer youth camps back in the 70's and 80's associated with KCYFC. Fiberglass water slides, horses, mini bikes, campfires at night, swimming pools, lakes for boating / fishing, lots of fun stuff. I remember one year they had giant slingshots (4-5 feet tall) on all 4 corners of a football field with a giant keg of water and balloons in the middle of the field. Another year a giant mudpit with stuff in it you had to jump in and find, ... I think those places are still there.
5) Lake Jacomo fiberglass waterslides - seems like those slides were longer rides than a lot of the slides nowadays and the crowds weren't so bad either so you got in more rides without waiting so long in between.
6) Pippin's / Tippins - awesome pies and good cornbread too
7) Aladdin's Castle
8) The Plaza - That hotel with the revolving restaurant on top and the glass elevators. One time my brother and I took dates there with a bunch of other friends and my brother did the "it's my brother's birthday" trick so I'd be embarrassed with the waiters singing happy birthday to me even though it wasn't my birthday. So I called one of the waitresses over & told her my brother was going to pay for me & my date for my birthday. Me and my date left & my brother had to borrow to pay the bill lol. / Also fun at the plaza - TJ Cinnamons / Annie Santa Fe / just walking around or riding the horse drawn carriages when the lights were on.
9) Hours and hours riding bikes with friends on the county line between Cass and Jackson.
10) Lots of fishing at ponds of family frienhds and relatives around the city, some squirrel hunting at my uncle's property.
11) Mountain Home, Arkansas where my grandma and other relatives lived down in the ozarks. Memories of riding horses, fishing, hunting, searching for quartz and fool's gold in creek beds - beautiful countryside.
12) Skateland
13) Hiboy's
14) Winstead's
15) Taco John's
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